" In face of criticism, Trump surges to his biggest lead over the GOP field"

Leads the field with a 38 % , Ted Cruz second at just 15%.

" Following his proposal to temporarily bar Muslims from entering the country, Donald Trump has increased his lead in the Republican primary to its largest margin yet, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll."

miltiades wrote:" President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to take "extremely tough" action against any threat to its forces in Syria.

Such targets must be "immediately destroyed", he told defence officials in televised comments."

This message is meant for Erdogan, I'm sure.

The indirect message to Erdogan from Putin is; "lets see if you have the balls to come anywhere near my jets again or even cross the Syria-Turkey border with your jets and see what awaits for you, and further more, once you lose few jets and then you want to close the straits because you feel threatened, I want to see if you have anymore balls left to stop my Navy ships passing through it. Go ahead punk, make my day"!

Putin is egging on the Punk (Erdogan) to send TAF into Syria, but no takers. The Punk is staying away from Syrian airspace. Oh Gee, I wonder why?

Russia challenges Turkey over Syria

Russian President Vladimir Putin has continued to lay down the gauntlet to Ankara over Syria, asking whether Turkish jets have been able to fly over Syrian territory since Russia increased its military presence there.

“Do they think we would run away now? Russia is not that kind of country,” Agence France-Press quoted Putin as saying during his annual news conference on Dec. 17, speaking of Moscow’s increased military presence in Syria.

“Turkey was flying there all the time before, breaching Syrian airspace. Well, let’s see how they are flying there now,” he added.

As I mentioned before, Kanye West is promising to stand for President in 2020, as... a Republican. This is the kind of Republican the grand old party needs, not some hate mongering "race" baiter distracting the population from the real culprits (bankers, war criminals etc) with illusionary scapegoats, but a real self-made man who understands investment and hard work and the power of positive thinking in bettering oneself, plus not buying into and crazy prophetic delusions like Ben Carson or ISIS for that matter. Indeed I may even be tempted to switch allegiances to the Republicans myself, especially if he remains true to his Armenian wife, and more so if Hillary wins. With a Bernie Sanders presidency, things become more interesting

miltiades wrote:" President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to take "extremely tough" action against any threat to its forces in Syria.

Such targets must be "immediately destroyed", he told defence officials in televised comments."

This message is meant for Erdogan, I'm sure.

The indirect message to Erdogan from Putin is; "lets see if you have the balls to come anywhere near my jets again or even cross the Syria-Turkey border with your jets and see what awaits for you, and further more, once you lose few jets and then you want to close the straits because you feel threatened, I want to see if you have anymore balls left to stop my Navy ships passing through it. Go ahead punk, make my day"!

Putin is egging on the Punk (Erdogan) to send TAF into Syria, but no takers. The Punk is staying away from Syrian airspace. Oh Gee, I wonder why?

Russia challenges Turkey over Syria

Russian President Vladimir Putin has continued to lay down the gauntlet to Ankara over Syria, asking whether Turkish jets have been able to fly over Syrian territory since Russia increased its military presence there.

“Do they think we would run away now? Russia is not that kind of country,” Agence France-Press quoted Putin as saying during his annual news conference on Dec. 17, speaking of Moscow’s increased military presence in Syria.

“Turkey was flying there all the time before, breaching Syrian airspace. Well, let’s see how they are flying there now,” he added.

Turkey has been threatened by the Coalition that if the TAF are to enter Syria then they will fall under coalition command. Attacking the Kurds will not be tolerated by the Coalition.

And you can thank Australia for this, because when Turkey started to bomb the Kurds, there were Australian Troops on the ground with the Kurds and they were Special Forces on top of that and the Australian Military was pissed and took the issue to the highest levels in the Pentagon and White House. It was a really huge issue for Australia.

Obama was even threatened that if Turkey's actions did not cease immediately, Australian Troops will withdraw.

Then Turkey was set up with a show down with Pootin to keep them quiet. By encouraging the Turks to shoot down a Russian Jet, we have Turkey where we want her now.

There are still to this day, Coalition Troops in Kurdish Areas.

But if you think Pootin is in charge of Syrian Airspace, then you're mistaken. If he was in control, then the coalition wouldn't be able to access Syrian Airspace and they are doing that at will, 24/7.